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Mink Chocolates located in downtown Vancouver have a unique program called Mink Cares. This family-run chocolate cafe’s staff donate 100% of their tips to a different charity each month. In August 2009, the staff of Mink donated over $400 to the West Coast Book Prize Society. In return, each staff member received a tax receipt for their proportional share of the donation. As Mink says, “It’s [our] way of giving back to the community, and we gratefully thank all our customers for their generous support.”

To express our thanks, last month we stopped by with a Certificate of Appreciation. (from left to right) Bryan Pike, Executive Director of the BC Book Prizes; Marc Lieberman, manager; and staff members Estrella Pedroso, Benjamin Allen, Alesia Vengerskaya, and Staci Volkhina.

Lee Henderson’s novel The Man Game has won the 2009 Vancouver Book Award. Earlier this year Lee Henderson won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for The Man Game. The award was presented this afternoon at City Hall.

The finalists for the 2009 award also included Gabor Maté, who won the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize for In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts, and Meredith Quartermain for Nightmarker.